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Show HERRICK LAUDS FUND PLAN Ambassador to France Endorses Legion's Le-gion's Campaign to Provide for Decoration of Graves. Myron T. Herrlck, American ambassador ambas-sador to France, recently wrote American Amer-ican Legion national headqunrters In Indianapolis endorsing the Legion's campaign to raise a fund to provide for the decoration of 32,000 graves of war dead overseas each Memorial day. "This delicate and kindly thought of the American Legion in assuming the responsibility for the appropriate decoration of the graves of the American Ameri-can soldiers In France has received the universal and grateful approval of the families, relatives and friends of Its dead comrades," Ambassador Herrlck Her-rlck stated. "It Is an assurance of permanency and efficiency in the outward out-ward remembrance of our honored dead. Also, it is a comforting thought that the graves of our hoys who sleep in the fields of France, where they fought and died have become the sacred trust of their living comrades, the Legionnaires." Similar messages of approval for the campaign have been received by the Legion from General Pershing and Secretary of War Weeks. |
